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"A thorough, academic study that convincingly challenges the popular estimate of the extent of pedophiles in the Church."--Publishers Weekly"Philip Jenkins...brings to the issue of clergy abuse an experienced eye. Pedophiles and Priests is a fine cautionary tale that should give all parties to the pedophile-priest crisis something to think about."--The New York Times Book Review"For those who have been offended by the media coverage of the 'epidemic' of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, here at last is somewhere to turn for the facts."--National Review"While he may overestimate the long-term consequences of the malfeasance he examines, Philip Jenkins' admirable study is without doubt the best account we have of clerical sexual scandal and the way it has been exploited by contending forces within contemporary religion and the media. The book is a model of scholarly and judicious treatment of a subject much sensationalized and therefore much misunderstood."--The Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, editor in chief of First Things

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Philip Jenkins, one of the world's leading religion scholars joined Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion as Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director for the Program on Historical Studies of Religion.

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Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (May 17, 2001)

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Philip Jenkins "Pedophile and Priests" is the classic resource for anyone interested in obtaining an even-handed review of the contemporary clerical abuse scandal involving the Catholic Church in America. Jenkins has often been only sober voice in media discussions on the so-called pedophile priest scandal, such as when he points out that the rate of sexual misconduct is no higher for Catholic priests than it is for other clergy and occupations.Jenkins is a historian, and in many ways, his book offers a historical retrospective of the causes and players in the creation of the public perception that there is a unique problem with "pedophile priests." Jenkins' book was that it was published in 1996, so that it traces the history of the scandal from the early 80s through to around 1993. Of course, we know that after 2000 - and particularly when the Boston Globe began reporting on the scandal in the Boston diocese in the early 2000s - the scandal really took off in the public mind. The surprising things about Jenkins' books are (a) how much was going on before the 2000 and (b) how the memes and tropes established in the 80s and 90s continued to play themselves out after 2000.Jenkins develops his book around the idea that the "priest pedophile" scandal is a matter of "social construction." As he points out, it is one thing to have objective facts, another to construct those objective facts into a public perception that the objective facts hang together in a particular way that has particular meaning worthy of attention. The way that such a "social construction" is created is by "framing" the objective facts in a particular way that attracts attention, fits the presumptions of the public and invests the objective facts with meaning.Since it is objective facts that are being framed, the question is "who did the framing"? In answer to that question, Jenkins looks at the players who were able to frame individual scandals involving Catholic priests, invariably homosexual, and boys in their mid to late teens, in order to frame the image of the "pedophile priest" as somehow being the norm of Catholic priests. The players included victim groups, lawyers, dissident Catholics, therapists and the news media.Jenkins does a fantastic job of explaining how these players managed to frame a "pedophile priest" scandal as a matter of established fact in the public mind, notwithstanding the fact that the individual cases did not usually involve pedophilia - which is an attraction to prepubescent child - but homosexual ephobophilia - which is an attraction to post-pubescent males - and did not involve more than around 2% of all priests (approximately .03% being pedophiles and 1.7% being ephobophiles) based on a review of records of the Diocese of Chicago (and largely confirmed in subsequent studies.)Jenkins does a great job of explaining how this scandal emerged in large part because of changing value systems, including a change in the perception of the seriousness of sexual misconduct with minors. For those reading this in 2010, the Roman Polanski case offers an interesting proof to Jenkins' argument about changing attitudes. Namely, in 1977, Polanski was sentenced by a prosecutor to no time in jail and a 90 day psychiatric assessment for sodomizing a 13 year old girl. By standards of 2010, that now seems to show incredible insensitivity on the part of the prosecutor, but as Jenkins notes, by the therapeutic standards of the `60s and `70s, the psychiatric approach was normal, and it is potentially misleading to judge the motivations behind decisions made 30 years ago by standards held by people living today. That, however, is something endemic in Catholic priest scandal cases, where the bulk of such cases involve decisions in the `90s and `00s for decisions made in the `60s and `70s.Another sea change in American life was the fact that in the `70s and `80s, the media stopped showing religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular the deference it had traditionally shown. Thus, scandals that would not have seen the light of day in 1965 were front page news in 1995. Undoubtedly, the Catholic Church and its members have had their welfare improved by this development, albeit the constant focus of news stories on the Catholic Church exclusively makes media coverage something of a wash.Jenkins is quite good when he points out that the Catholic Church became a particular target for lawsuits because of its centralization - thereby offering "deep pockets" to pay judgments - and its bureaucratization, which included maintaining records that lawyers could obtain in discovery for the purpose of securing new defendants and plaintiffs. So, while there has been a tendency to make the Catholic Church's problem a matter of its theology or practice, the fact is that the Catholic Church is simply a much more attractive target for lawyers for the same reason that bank robbers rob banks - because that is where the money is. Also, as a practicing plaintiff's trial attorney, I have to hand it to Jenkins for being the first person I have read to make the connection between the rise of liability insurance and the development of novel legal theories of liability. The layman probably isn't aware of the fact that law often develops in one area because lawyers are attracted to that area because the possibility of obtaining a recovery is guaranteed by an insurance policy.Jenkins' is also quite good in his observation that Catholic internal politics played a key role in making the scandal a particularly Catholic scandal. He points out that the scandal arose at a time when the American Catholic Church was transforming itself from a "sect" into a "religion." As a sect, Catholicism had high internal cohesion and high conflict with society. After Vatican II, it appeared that American Catholicism was becoming a "religion, with low internal cohesion and low conflict with society, by essentially transforming itself into something like a mainstream Protestant denomination. However, this process of transformation fell short some time after the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978, resulting in liberal Catholics with an axe to grind against the hierarchy, and against the practice of celibacy for priests, as well as other traditional doctrines and practices, and a Catholic membership that would not circle the wagons the same way that they would have back when they belonged to a "sect." This then permitted Catholic voices - such as the liberal National Catholic Register - to engage in internal Catholic polemics that were then picked up by the mainstream media that otherwise might have been accused of anti-Catholicism but for the fact that it was parroting things said by Catholics. The conservative Catholics likewise played into the "framing" of the "pedophile priest" scandal because of their agenda in undermining what they perceived to be non-orthodox homosexual activist priests.I heartily recommend Jenkins' book as a primary source for anyone who wants an objective, outsider's perspective on how the subject. Although it was written in 1996, the analysis seems to remain pertinent to the situation of the Catholic Church after 15 years.

So many reports and news headlines poured out and much outrage as facts never were considered or reviewed. Along comes Philip Jenkins and he lays out all the acts and shows how a Catholic Church use to being ignored, became engulfed by media hysteria and unable to counter with sound facts.I highly recommend this book to people, particularly when they encounter others who claim the Catholic Church is a nest of pedophiles. This book proves otherwise and show how the Church never was treated respectfully in regard to the facts.

Philip Jenkins (born 1952) teaches history and religious studies at Penn State University and Baylor University; he has written many other books such as The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice,Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way,The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity,Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses, etc.He wrote in the first chapter of this 1996 book, "Occasional investigations and scandals are inevitable, and a handful of genuine instances of clergy sex abuse can be found in any decade of this century. What has been different about the past decade has been the high volume of reported cases and the enormous public attention that these have attracted. Because it is unlikely that pedophile behavior itself has increased as dramatically, the question must be asked why public perceptions have changed so radically. Why should so many cases have come to light during the 1980s rather than in an earlier historical epoch, and why should they have formed the basis of a 'pedophile crisis'? Why, similarly, should public attention have come to focus so decisively on the Catholic aspects of the problem? What explains the distinctive construction of the clergy-abuse problem in the past decade?" (Pg. 12-13)He points out, "Partially, the apparently high number of cases involving Catholic clergy is an inevitable consequence of the very size of that denomination... the number of Catholic CLERGY is larger than the total membership of many denominations in this country... there will be many more scandals involving Catholic priests than Episcopal or Presbyterian clergy, precisely because this group is more numerous to begin with. In fact, the difference is even larger ... because so many of the scandals involve events that occurred many years ago, in the 1960s and 1970s... Because the Catholic priesthood had a particularly high rate of turnover during the 1970s, this gives a very large population in which potentially troubled individuals might be found..." (Pg. 8-9)He notes, "Andrew Greeley explicitly compared the church's closed structure to that of the Mafia, with the difference that that Mafia did enforce internal sanctions against deviants: 'Even the Outfit... has sanctions. The priesthood doesn't.' Comparing the Church to the Mafia implies size and malevolence, but also (probably unwittingly) evokes alien and conspiratorial qualities of the sort long alleged against Catholicism." (Pg. 56) He later adds, "In 1992 Greeley reacted to charges that the abuse danger had been exaggerated by declaring that the Chicago statistics proved that nationwide 'an estimate of one out of ten priests as sexual abusers might be too high and an estimate of one out of twenty might be too low.' The statement, however, is based on what appears to be a miscalculation... Abuse was confirmed in the cases of about one-sixtieth ... of the corps of Chicago priests rather than the suggested 5 to 10 percent, evidence of how even a writer of such competence and integrity can fall into error." (Pg. 81-82)He observes, "By the mid-1980s little prophetic skill was needed to realize that church institutions were shortly to encounter serious legal difficulties with molestation suits, especially because traditional internal defenses were withering. In earlier years canon law provided excommunication for any Catholic who sought redress against a priest or religious in a secular court... Because most victims of abuse by priests came from Catholic families, this was a valuable deterrent for potential litigants as long as excommunication remained a viable weapon, which it had long ceased to be by 1980." (Pg. 128)He comments about the justification for refusing to return a guilty priest to service, "this behavior differs from theft in that it is now commonly believed to reflect a compulsive or addictive personality disorder, which cannot be cured or deterred by even the most determined act of will on the part of the offender. The near-universal acceptance of this compulsive model suggests the continuing expansion of medical and deterministic interpretations of wrongdoing and the consequent reduction of revision of the concept of individual sinfulness, especially in matters of sexuality. Sin necessarily implies free will; psychological and therapeutic models are deterministic in their analysis of how character and behavior are formed by family, upbringing, and social development." (Pg. 162-163)This book was written prior to the "BIG" crisis which came to light in 2002, but Jenkins' thoughts still have application in many or most situations. It is a very useful corrective/supplement to the many more lurid analyses which came out after 2002.

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